After being asked for a bit of advice by a colleague, I decided to make a very simple starter template for creating an HTML5 page. You can download it here: Download HTML5 template Notes The tricky part is making sure it works in older browsers, for which I used the following two steps: 1. Normalize.css(Click on … Continue reading Free HTML5 Template
At last, the existence of vendor prefixes, one of my pet peeves, is under the spotlight. Also at last, the fact that not all modern browsers are WebKit (shock!) is getting some attention. I (personally) believe vendor prefixes cause more harm than the problem they were designed to solve, namely how to elegantly introduce experimental … Continue reading On Vendor Prefixes — An Interview With Dr. Stanley Dards
I’m looking to make some pretty JavaScript charts and was wondering which library to use. I’ve used Flotr in an Opera extension and played around with gRaphaël in the past, but I want to do a more thorough comparison. First step is to list all the charting libraries I can find, so here it is… Open source … Continue reading List of Javascript Charting Libraries
You know that lonely feeling, where all the hip web designers and developers gather at the coolest conference and you’re stuck at your desk? Here’s a song for those of us that miss out on all the glamour. https://www.youtube.com/embed/u_gAPRJmEWs The original song, by the way, is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. Video URL (with captions): www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gAPRJmEWs … Continue reading Song: Web Conference Blues
I thought I’d share the resources that have most helped me learn SVG. It’s an old technology but getting a lot of interest recently so I finally got round to doing some experimenting myself (so far an SVG game and a geolocation demo). I still have a long way to go but already I’ve found myself returning to … Continue reading Learning SVG
Hardly worth a whole blog post but it may help somebody… is_numeric() is the function to use for validating numeric-only user input with PHP but unfortunately there is no is_alphanumeric(). Or so I thought. Meet ctype_alnum() Here’s an example of its usage: if (ctype_alnum($_POST['username'])) { echo "Thanks - that's a good username."; } else { … Continue reading How to do alphanumeric validation with PHP
Inspired by a forum post I came across the other day I’ve compiled a list of free online checkers/validators for web developers. Please let me know if you’re aware of others. (Updated 16th September 2010) (X)HTML validator.w3.org/ – The daddy of validators and your first port of call validator.nu/ – Maybe your second port of … Continue reading Free online web development checkers
By accident, I came across a feature today which has pretty much made Firefox redundant for me. I’m sure I’m not alone in reverting to Firefox occasionally for one or two key features that don’t exist in Opera (or at least I haven’t found them yet). The Web Developer toolbar was my addictive feature but … Continue reading Debug menu, where have you been all my life?!
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